Motivational Quotes

Money

Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

- Clason, George S.

Best Quotes about Money

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

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A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

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Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

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More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

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Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

22.

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

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The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

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All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

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I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

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Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

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There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

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There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

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I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

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Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

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Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

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Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward